A FOUR-year plan to move Quorn’s library into the Old School community regeneration project has been put on hold while a feasibility study is conducted amid concerns over possible cutbacks.

Moving the library from Rawlins Community College to the 1834-built building was always part of the plan when Quorn Parish Council bought the Old School in 2008 in a bid to turn it into the heart of the community.

However it was revealed at a meeting of the Barrow, Quorn and Sileby Area Forum that the parish council is to conduct a feasibility study before making a decision on whether moving the library would be worthwhile.

Quorn resident Terry Stirling told the forum: “We’re having a study as it was first discussed four years ago and the situation with the current financial climate is now very different.

“With the proposals being made by the council to change the library service we don’t know how the library will operate in the future.”

Simon McIntosh from Leicestershire County Council responded: “The library service is something that everyone says is really important but when they weigh it up against the care of elderly people and children they tend they feel it might be a place where reductions are being made.”